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Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta
Ferrari
aka The Golden Ferrari
Production 2010
1 unit only
Class Supercar
Body Style 2-door, 2-seat Targa
Length 4,665 mm (183.7 in)
Width 1,962 mm (77.2 in)
Height 1,336 mm (52.6 in)
Wheelbase 2,750 mm (108.3 in)
Weight 1,793 kg (3,953 lb)
Transmission F1 6-speed gearbox, RWD

6-speed manual, RWD

Engine 6.0 litre (5999 cc) 65° V12
Power 611 hp (456 kW/620 CV) @ 7600 rpm
448 lb-ft (608 Nm/62 kgm) of torque @ 5600 rpm
Similar Ferrari California
Designer Pininfarina

The Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta is a one-off front mid-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car produced by the Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari, based on the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano.

Edward Walson commissioned the car in 2008, asking Ferrari to build a modern interpretation of the gold covered Carrozzeria Fantuzzi-designed Ferrari built for the film Toby Damnit. This car represents the second car in Ferrari's Special Project program.

The P540 was revealed to the public on December 11, 2009, but had been spotted in spy shots several months previous to this.[1]

Development[]

Designed by Pininfarina and built in Maranello, this car was designed to homologate with international safety and homologation requirements. Using finite element analysis and carbon fibre, the car's chassis was stiffened for the conversion to a convertible body style. Total time of development was 14 months.

Design And Origins[]

Built as a one-off for Edward Walson, the son of the inventor of cable TV, the P540 Superfast Aperta is a topless, gold-colored celebration of the car featured in the 1968 Fellini film Toby Dammit--a movie inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe tale. So this is, in a way, perhaps the first car inspired by Poe. Odd, yet strangely beautiful--just like the car. “I had always dreamed of designing sports cars,” Walson explains, “and when I saw this film the decision came of its own accord: one day I would have ‘my’ Ferrari.” With lines not unlike a C3 Corvete, especially toward the rear, the P540 Superfast nonetheless manages to make it plain that this is no run-of-the-mill malaise mobile. It is a purebred, and it shows. Powered by the same 611-horsepower, 6.0-liter V-12 engine found in the standard 599 GTB, with the power routed through an F1 six-speed gearbox to the rear wheels, it'll go as fast as it looks. Despite a lot of extra bracing added to turn the hardtop 599 into a homologated, road-legal open-top, the P540 only weights about 45 pounds more than the base car. How'd they manage it? With extensive use of carbon fiber, of course. Even more impressive, the whole project, from sketch to shake-down testing that week, took just 14 months.

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